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Example sentences for: yardstick

How can you use “yardstick” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

That yardstick is too conservative, say critics, because it was instituted when the Dow stood at about 2,300, compared with today's 7,600.
The owner's scope of work should be used as the yardstick against which to measure performance.
They will insist, through legislation and other means, that Beijing's behavior toward Hong Kong become the yardstick by which Washington determines its level of cooperation with China.
The current World Health Organization treatment target of having three million people on antiretroviral therapy by the end of 2005 (the “3 by 5” objective) provides a yardstick for only one part of the equation.
The Post has a perhaps-too-friendly story about the Pope, who's visiting Mexico: "To understand the significance of this pontiff, it helps to see him through his own eyes, and measure him by the yardstick of church history."